Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries [electronic resource] : Playing the Heresy Card /
Bollermann, K.editor.
Izbicki, T.editor.
Nederman, C.editor.
Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note about Citations to Texts of the Canon Law; Introduction; Part I "Razing" the Stakes: Personal Trials and Political Tribulations; 1. Standing in Abelard's Shadow: Gilbert of Poitiers, the 1148 Council of Rheims, and the Politics of Ideas; 2. Secular Politics and Academic Condemnation at Oxford, 1358-1411; 3. "O Cursed Judas": Formal Heresy Accusations against Jan Hus; 4. Questions of Due Process and Conviction in the Trial of Joan of Arc
Part II Joker's Wild: Misappropriations of Orthodoxy and Misrepresentations of Heterodoxy5. Making a Heresiarch: Guido Terreni's Attack on Joachim of Fiore; 6. The Papal Condemnation of Marsilius of Padua's Defensor Pacis: Its Preparation and Political Use; 7. Tarring Conciliarism with the Brush of Heresy: Juan de Torquemada's Summa de ecclesia; 8. Ockham, Almain, and the Idea of Heresy; Part III The House Always Wins: Power Politics and the Threat of Force; 9. Hints and Allegations: The Charge of Infidelity in Papal and Imperial Propaganda, 1239-1245
10. Autonomy, Dissent, and the Crusade against Fra Dolcino in Fourteenth-Century Valsesia11. Religious Dissent in Premodern Islam: Political Usage of Heresy and Apostasy in Nizam al-Mulk and Ibn Taymiyya; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.
Religion—History.
Religion and sociology.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Philosophy.
World politics.
History of Religion.
Religion and Society.
History of Medieval Europe.
History of Philosophy.
Political History.